Ranches and Wide Open Spaces

Family sagas, historical lawmen, and the wide open spaces of the West

Updated November 6, 2024
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Below zero
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Award-winning and national-bestselling author Box returns with a vengeance in this thrilling new novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.
The bitter past
Borgos, Bruce
Ebook
In the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, Bruce Borgos's The Bitter Past begins a compelling series set in the high desert of Nevada featuring Sheriff Porter Beck... Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, north of Las Vegas. Born and raised...
The Black Hills
Johnstone, William W
Paper Book
Johnstone Country.Frontier Spirit Lives Here. Meet Hunter Buchanon, a towering mountain of a man who learned how to track prey in Georgia, kill in the Civil War, and prospect in the Black Hills of Dakota. Now he's trying to live a peaceful gun-free life-but fate has...
Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
Drury, Bob
Paper Book
The Instant New York Times Besteller National Bestseller "[The] authors' finest work to date." --Wall Street Journal The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by...
Blood trail
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
An award-winning writer returns with a vengeance in this thrilling new novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.
Breaking point
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Game Warden Joe Pickett had no idea that Lyle Pendergast was about to disappear. When they spoke the other day, Lyle said he was heading into the mountains to hunt, but instead he was running. Two EPA employees had just been murdered, and all signs pointed to him as the killer.
Butch Cassidy : the lost years
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
Readers of Johnstone's many westerns appreciate his taut writing and good storytelling. --Examiner.com "Engaging and entertaining." --Spur and Lock on The Brothers O'Brien On November 3, 1908, in the town of San Vicente, suspected of stealing a mining company...
Die by the gun
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
"After completing a successful cattle drive as the chuckwagon cook, Dewey "Mac" McKenzie signs up for another one on the Goodnight-Loving Trail, deep in New Mexico Territory. Pursued by a gang of ruthless killers hired by his enemies, with an ornery trail boss and the cattle owner's spoiled son as...
The cold dish : Logmire mystery, 1
Johnson, Craig.
Paper Book
Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Hell Is Empty and As the Crow Flies, the first in the Longmire Mystery Series, the basis for LONGMIRE, the hit Netflix original drama series. Fans of...
Cold wind
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Read an Essay from C.J. Box on Cold Wind.The extraordinary new Joe Pickett novel from the Edgar Award-winning author. Nowhere to Run was "wonderful" (The Denver Post), "terrific" (Chicago Tribune), and "outstanding" (Publishers Weekly). The new...
A Colorado Christmas
Johnstone, William W
Paper Book
William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, the bestselling masters of the American frontier, take you back to the early days of Big Rock, Colorado, where stories are passed down from generation to generation. Where legends live on and heroes never die. And where one family's Christmas gathering turns...
Depth of winter
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
"It's the scenery--and the big guy standing in front of the scenery--that keeps us coming back to Craig Johnson's lean and leathery mysteries."  --The New York Times Book Review In the new Longmire novel, Walt must journey into the northern Mexican desert alone to...
Dig your own grave
Johnstone, William W
Paper Book
Johnstone Country. Keeping the West wild. U.S. Marshal Will Tanner is one hell of a manhunter. But this time, he's chasing six men across three states with one gun and no backup. This isn't justice. This is a suicide mission . . . DIG YOUR OWN GRAVE
The disappeared
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Don't miss the JOE PICKETT series--now streaming on Paramount+ Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett has two lethal cases to contend with in this electrifying novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C.J. Box. Wyoming's new governor isn't sure what to make of...
Dry bones
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
In the latest installment of Craig Johnson's New York Times bestselling Longmire series, Wyoming's beloved lawman takes on his coldest case yet   When Jen, the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found surfaces in Sherriff Walt Longmire's...
Endangered
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling writer C. J. Box returns with a thrilling new novel, featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. She was gone. Joe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, even if he was a rodeo champion, and now he has even more--Joes eighteen-year-old ward, April, has run off...
First frost
Johnson, Craig
Ebook
The past and future collide in this gripping new addition to the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. It's the summer of 1964, and recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear read the writing on the wall and enlist to serve in the Vietnam...
Follow me to hell :
Clavin, Tom,
Audiobook
Force of nature
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
A Library Journal Best Mystery of 2012 He never wanted to tell Joe Pickett about it, but Nate Romanowski always knew trouble was coming out of his past. Now it's here, and it may not only be the battle of his life-but of Joe's. In 1995, Nate was in a secret...
Free fire
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Don't miss the JOE PICKETT series--now streaming on Paramount+ Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett hunts a mass murderer in Yellowstone in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box. Joe Pickett's been hired to investigate one of the most...
A High Sierra Christmas
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling AuthorsSmoke Jensen and his children won't let a little snow stop them from heading to Reno for the holidays. And Smoke decides to take the short way -- through the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the trail that brought the legendary Donner Party to a gruesome,...
The highwayman
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
New York Times Bestselling AuthorThe basis for the hit drama Longmire, now on Netflix A Walt Longmire Mystery Sheriff Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear embark on their latest adventure in this novella set in the world of Craig Johnson's Longmire series. In an investigation that spans this world...
In plain sight
Box, C. J
Paper Book
Don't miss the JOE PICKETT series--now streaming on Paramount+ Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett's hunt for a missing woman forces him to confront his own past in this gripping novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Ranch owner and matriarch Opal...
Long range :
Box, C. J.
Ebook
Don't miss the JOE PICKETT series--now streaming on Paramount+ Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must investigate an attempted murder--a crime committed from a confoundingly long distance--in this riveting novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box.
The Longmire defense
Johnson, Craig
Ebook
Sheriff Walt Longmire uncovers a cold case that hits very close to home and forces him to put his life on the line with implications that some people would kill to keep buried forever Sheriff Walt Longmire and Dog are called on a routine search and rescue to Wyoming's Big­horn...
Next to last stand
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
The new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer's Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of over two million copies a year, was destroyed in a fire at the 7th...
Nowhere to run
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
The extraordinary new Joe Pickett novel from the Edgar Award-winning author. "Box's series is the gold standard," wrote Library Journal about Below Zero, but never has he written a novel as harrowing as Nowhere to Run. Joe Pickett's in his...
An obvious fact
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorA Walt Longmire MysteryIn the midst of the world's largest motorcycle rally, a young biker is run off the road and ends up in critical condition. When Sheriff Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear are called to Hulett, Wyoming -- the town nearest America's first...
Open season
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Few first mysteries have been welcomed as enthusiastically as Open Season, or with better cause. "When a high-powered bullet hits living flesh, it makes a distinctive -pow-WHOP-sound that is unmistakable even at tremendous distance." And so it begins for Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden who, with...
Out of range
Box, C. J
Paper Book
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is about to become the hunted in this suspenseful thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. When a good friend and fellow warden kills himself, Joe Pickett is chosen to temporarily run his Teton district. But Jackson, Wyoming, is...
Outlaw country
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
"For most couples, the marriage vows end with Til death do us part. But when Smoke Jensen takes Sally Reynolds as his lawfully wedded wife, its just the beginning. The tragic deaths of Smokés first wife and child weigh heavily on his heart. Thankfully, Sally is there to give him the support he needs...
Prairie fire
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
The Greatest Western Writers of the 21st Century present the 9th chapter in their USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling series featuring Luke Jensen, the long-lost brother of Mountain Man Smoke Jensen. A legend among bounty hunters, Luke Jensen is called to track down a deranged...
Savage run
Box, C. J
Paper Book
Don't miss the JOE PICKETT series--now streaming on Paramount+ Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett uncovers a conspiracy in this explosive novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. When a massive blast rocks the forests of Twelve Sleep County, Wyoming...
A serpent's tooth
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
The inspiration for A&E's Longmire finds himself in the crosshairs in the ninth book of the New York Times bestselling series The success of Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire series that began with The Cold Dish continues to grow after A&E's hit show Longmire<...
Shadows reel
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett is called out for a moose poaching incident that turns out to be something much more sinister: a local fishing guide has been brutally murdered. At the same time, Marybeth opens an unmarked package and finds a photo album that belonged to an infamous Nazi official....
Smoke Jensen : the beginning
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
On the eve of the Civil War, Kirby Jensen is the youngest of three children living on a hardscrabble ranch in Southwestern Missouri. But in 1861 shots were fired in Charleston harbor, and Kirby's father and brother went to war. Back at home, waves of violence crash over Kriby and his family, until...
Stone cold
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
The electrifying new Joe Pickett novel from the New York Times–bestselling author.   Everything about the man is a mystery: the massive ranch in the remote Black Hills of Wyoming that nobody ever visits, the women who live with him, the secret philanthropies, the...
Storm watch
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious death at a secret remote high-tech facility in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box.     When a prominent University of Wyoming professor goes missing,...
The violent land the family Jensen
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
They are strangers in a strange land - a band of German immigrants trespassing across the Jensen family spread. Led by a baron fleeing a dark past in Germany and accompanied by a woman beautiful enough to dazzle young Matt Jensen, the pilgrims, as they have come to be known, are being pursued by a...
Three-inch teeth /
Box, C. J.
Ebook
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts--one animal, one human--in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box. A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage--killing, among others, the potential fiancé of Joe's...
Tombstone : the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the vendetta ride from hell
Clavin, Thomas
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Tombstone is written in a distinctly American voice." --T.J. Stiles, The New York Times "With a former newsman's nose for the truth, Clavin has sifted the facts, myths, and lies to produce...
Trophy hunt
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Don't miss the JOE PICKETT series--now streaming on Paramount+ In this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Joe Pickett series, the Wyoming game warden is up against a vicious killer who's more beast than man... Local authorities in Twelve Sleep...
Vicious circle
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
The past comes back to haunt game warden Joe Pickett and his family with devastating effect in the thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. The plane circled in the dark. Joe Pickett could just make out down below a figure in the snow and...
Wait for signs : twelve Longmire stories
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
Twelve Longmire short stories available for the first time in a single volume; featuring an introduction by Lou Diamond Phillips of A&E's Longmire Ten years ago, Craig Johnson wrote his first short story, the Hillerman Award; winning Old Indian Trick.; This was one...
The western star
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
New York Times Bestselling AuthorA Longmire MysterySheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a celebratory beer after a weapons certification at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy when a younger sheriff confronts him with a photograph that hurtles the sheriff into a head-on collision of past and present,...
When the shooting starts
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
Before he became known as The Last Mountain Man, Smoke Jensen and his bride Sally were hardworking ranchers on the Colorado frontier, when times were hard, tensions were high, and guns were the law...
Wild Bill : the true story of the American frontier's first gunfighter
Clavin, Thomas
Paper Book
The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City. In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO--the first quick-draw...
Winterkill
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Don't miss the JOE PICKETT series--now streaming on Paramount+ Joe Pickett's pursuit of a killer through the rugged mountains of Wyoming takes a horrifying turn when his beloved foster daughter is kidnapped in this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. ...
Wolf pack
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Don't miss the JOE PICKETT series--now streaming on Paramount+ Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett encounters bad behavior on his own turf--only to have the FBI and the DOJ ask him to stand down--in the thrilling novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C.J. Box. ...

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